Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Gender
Male
Birthday
1/19/1878
Place of Birth
Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
Also Known As
William Finlay Currie
Finlay Currie
Biography
Finlay Jefferson Currie (20 January 1878 – 9 May 1968) was a Scottish actor of stage, screen and television.
Born in Edinburgh, Scotland, Currie's acting career began on the stage. He and his wife Maude Courtney (1884–1959) did a song and dance act in the US in the 1890s. He made his first film (The Old Man) in 1931. He appeared as a priest in the 1943 Ealing World War II movie Undercover. His most famous film role was as the convict Abel Magwitch in David Lean's Great Expectations (1946), based on the novel, 'Great Expectations' by Charles Dickens. He later began to appear in Hollywood film ...
Known For
Ben-Hur
as Balthasar
Cleopatra
as Titus
Treasure Island
as Capt. Billy Bones
Quo Vadis
as Peter
Saint Joan
as Archbishop of Rheims
Heat Wave
as Captain
Ivanhoe
as Cedric
Solomon and Sheba
as David
Trio
as Mr. McLeod
West 11
as Gash
Kangaroo
as Michael McGuire
Dangerous Exile
as Mr. Patient
The Mudlark
as John Brown
Abandon Ship
as Mr. Wheaton
Kidnapped
as Cluny MacPherson
Rome Express
as Sam, Publicist
The Fall of the Roman Empire
as Senator
Hand in Hand
as Mr. Pritchard
Whisky Galore!
as Narrator
Glamorous Night
as Angus MacKintosh